Introducing the 2025 Post Growth Fellows
A deepening network of people imagining and embodying life beyond growth.
Running from April through November 2025, the Post Growth Fellowship once again brings together researchers, creatives, community organizers, and activists from across the world— with a focus on the Global South.
Now in its fourth year, the program explores new approaches to social and economic systems, nurturing a widening network of people imagining and embodying life beyond growth.
In anticipation of another year of radical learning and rich exchange, we are delighted to introduce the 2025 Post Growth Fellows:
Aisha Marzuki is an innovation strategist, foresight practitioner, and recovering architect with a Master’s degree in Innovation Management. She specializes in systems thinking and data-driven decision-making, supporting experimentation in the development sector, from product testing to policy sandboxes. Originally from Indonesia and now based in Bangkok, Thailand, Aisha works across the Asia-Pacific exploring post-growth alternatives that center intergenerational fairness.
Based in Antigua and Barbuda, Amina Doherty is a philanthropic visionary and global citizen. Amina has collaborated with governments, NGOs, activists, grassroots organisations, and philanthropists to build effective social justice programs. Working across four continents, Amina has cultivated networks that bridge communities and ignite innovative ideas. She holds an MSc in Gender and Development and a BA in Political Science and Women’s Studies.
di pham is a designer and game maker obsessed with wealth redistribution, social infrastructure, and disruptive play. Her studio, dp digital, experiments with narrative games, emergent tech, and economic models to explore alternative systems that center care over capital. Born in Việt Nam and after many years of wandering, she’s now settling back in the US. She dreams of a global distributed network of self-sustaining communities where basic rights are honored with ease.
Diyana Yahaya is a feminist activist, researcher, trainer, and facilitator from Malaysia with almost two decades of national, regional and global experience in advancing women’s human rights. Her work spans economic justice, trade justice, finance, investment and sustainable development. She has delivered capacity-building support to diverse audiences worldwide and continues to do so through FPAR Academy.
Edwige Dro is a writer and a literary translator who passionately believes that stories can empower people and transform societies. From Côte d’Ivoire, she is the founder of 1949: the library of women’s writings from Africa and the black world. Edwige is interested in conversations and discourses that dismantle feminism hiding under a veneer of neoliberalism, capitalism and patriarchal power, and using a feminist approach to explore the world she lives in.
Emilia Roig is an author, PhD in Political Science, and a passionate explorer of animism, the cosmos, and dance. Born in Paris and now based in Berlin, Germany, she became deeply interested in post-growth during her fellowship at Heidelberg University, where she explored pathways to a world beyond capitalism. An astrology nerd who finds wisdom in the stars, Emilia writes on Substack and shares insights on Instagram.
Based in Bangalore, India, Gopika Bashi is an Indian feminist activist & campaigner in the field of gender justice and human rights. She is currently the Director of Programs at AWID, a global feminist movement support organisation. Her experience is rooted in working with diverse movements on issues including resourcing justice, sexual & gender-based violence, gender & sexuality, and labour rights.
Irene Vélez-Torres was Minister of Mines and Energy in the first progressive government of Colombia (2022–2023), leading a vision in the just energy transition to democratise energy access and overcome extractivism. Since 2024, she has led the Colombian Diplomatic Mission to the United Kingdom, advocating for an international political agenda focused on Human Rights and environmental justice. She is currently Editor of the international journal Geoforum (Q1).
Jane W. Wang is a degrowth activist in Taiwan and co-founder of the Transformation Collective, which runs a book club and the first university course on degrowth in Taiwan. Jane is passionate about showing people the systemic context to personal wellbeing, after experiencing a transformative inner slowing-down that showed her the world needed the same. She blogs for degrowth.info and was part of the Kincentric Leadership cohort of 2023–2024.
Josephine Ewoma is a UK-based researcher and workshop facilitator with a BSc in Marine Biology and MSc from the University of Oxford in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management. Josephine is passionate about environmental justice, youth engagement, and accessible science communication. She is a former Environmental Justice in Tech Fellow, and (sporadically) writes for online magazines and her SubStack.
Born in the Brazilian Amazon and currently based in Brasília, Kaime Silvestre is a human rights lawyer with a Master’s in International Law from Université libre de Bruxelles and a passion for governance, social justice, and post-capitalist futures. He became involved in post-growth work through years of activism and legal practice in Brazil, supporting Indigenous leaders, environmental defenders, and marginalized communities. Kaime brings experience in transitional justice, anti-corruption, and access to justice, with a background in international cooperation and justice reform across Latin America and Africa.
Dr. Kim McLear is an artist and designer who prototypes new models for civic empowerment rooted in intergenerational wisdoms, regenerative systems change approaches, and joyful living. As founder of The Art of Civics Project, she co-creates social innovations with changemakers from around the world to reimagine civic design within workplaces, communities, and governments. She is a former military whistleblower and former State of the Union guest of honor who has been featured in media outlets from CNN to the New York Times, including a CROWN Act cover issue of Glamour Magazine. Kim is passionate about her role of the arts, particularly music, in shaping collective action for futures that flourish for everyone.
Based in Cameroon and Portugal, Konkankoh is a village elder, CEO of Better World Cameroon, and founder of Bafut and Burgau Ecovillages. He is passionate about developing indigenousandmodern.com and the African Peace Village as hybrid weaving Communities of Practice for regenerative education and sustainable governance. Over the last 40 years, he has built South–North partnerships rooted in circular economy principles and friendship, in divergence from top-down ‘aid’ approaches.
Lecarl Lim is an organizer at Post-Growth Singapore and holds a BA in Environmental Studies from Yale-NUS College, Singapore. As a humanitarian worker, he leads disaster relief and sustainable development initiatives, focusing on climate resilience and fostering cross-border solidarity across the Asia Pacific region. Lecarl is passionate about shifting the conversation on post-growth from the margins to the mainstream in Singapore’s late-stage capitalist economy.
Mavra Bari is a journalist, writer, communications specialist, and sociologist with a keen eye on global politics surrounding climate change and the intersectionality of resource equity. She holds a Masters in Sociology and a BA in English Literature and Sociology, with an additional minor in creative writing. Her academic career coupled with over a decade of journalism and communications experience has equipped Mavra to use evidence-based storytelling as a tool for socio-economic and political change. Born in the UK to Pakistani political asylum seekers, Mavra understands that the personal is always political and community narratives can be leveraged to challenge the status quo.
Originally from Sudan and currently based in Egypt, Mayada Abdelazim Hassanain is a mother, economist, and researcher who works with International Development Economist Associates (IDEAs), where she advocates for heterodox economics and feminist economic frameworks. As a parent, she has grown increasingly conscious of how contemporary economic and political structures perpetuate alienation, excessive competition, and the erosion of community wellbeing.
Michael Mezzatesta is a US-based communicator and educator using social media to spread ideas for a better future. His fast-paced videos on Instagram and TikTok present social issues through the lens of political economy, and highlight why these problems are so difficult to ‘solve’ in the context of a neoliberal, growth-based capitalist system. Michael encourages people to imagine better ways our society could work, and what a post-growth future might be like.
nisch neupane is a lifelong learner, deeply interested in how private and public, and local and global moralities shape individual and communal level engagements with the (natural) world. Currently a Program Manager at the Loka Initiative, he is passionate about centering compassion, kindness, and justice in conversations around climate adaptation and resilience, and actively deconstructing his engagement with environmentalism and the conservation movement. He comes from the Himalayas. He has a Masters’ in the Human Dimensions of Environmental Conservation and 10+ years of experience in programs and grants management in the nonprofit sector.
Nonhlanhla Makuyana is a Zimbabwean-born, UK-based community economist, educator, and community organiser. They are a co-director at Decolonising Economics, where they work to cultivate a Black and People of Colour-led solidarity economy movement. They are the curator of Medicine: Lessons in Black Economic Interdependence, an oral history archival project exploring how the African oral tradition can inform movements for Black British economic self-determination.
Salim Mohamed is a development strategist, a civil society leader, and a youth advocate with extensive experience in public sector management, fundraising, and institutional development. Salim, a father based in Nairobi, Kenya, is a co-founder of CFK Africa and has established cross-sector partnerships to promote health, education, equality, community peace-building programs, and chances for resilient and inclusive locally led sustainable development for underserved communities. An Eisenhower Fellow and Fisher Family Fellow on Democracy and Development, Salim brings a deep commitment to mentorship, cross-cultural collaboration, and systems change.
Sara El-Sayeh is a mother, writer and facilitator living in Cairo, Egypt. She holds a MA in economics in international development from the American University of in Cairo. Having experienced the harm of capitalism first hand, Sara has begun exploring belonging, imagination and decolonization over the past decade. She’s been active in the Ecoversities Alliance, as an ‘older’ sibling in her Sufi community and as an ever curious human in her day to day life.
Soumabha Chakraborty is an environmental engineer and sustainability strategist at Coal India Limited, leading policy-driven initiatives focused on energy justice and transformative sustainability transitions. His innovative approach integrates Indigenous cultural wisdom and contemporary sustainability science to transform ecologically degraded, unsustainable coal-mining regions into vibrant community spaces prioritizing planetary health, intergenerational equity, and social resilience.
Trimita Chakma is a feminist researcher, organizer, and facilitator from the Indigenous Chakma hill tribe of Bangladesh. Her interest in post-growth economics developed through her work with activists across Asia, Africa, and the Pacific, witnessing how extractive economic systems harm marginalized communities. As co-founder of the FPAR Academy, she applies Feminist Participatory Action Research to translate complex social research into accessible campaign materials that drive community action.
Originally from the Philippines, and currently dividing her time between New York and Cape Town, Trisha Janelle Gragera thrives on turning ideas into action. As a Strategic Partnerships Consultant at Liminal Spaces, she weaves together multisectoral collaborations grounded in shared purpose. As an MPhil Candidate in Inclusive Innovation at the University of Cape Town, her research focuses on next-generation philanthropists and innovations within philanthropy.
Originally from Indonesia and based in Germany, Vierna David is a socio-economic researcher and international development specialist with an MA in Project Management and a PhD in Social Policy. She has consulted major international organizations, on peace and security, and women in infrastructure sectors. Vierna is currently establishing a social enterprise that collaborates with village governments in Indonesia to experiment with a post-growth welfare system.
WarīNkwī Flores is a Kara & Kichwa kultural lawyer and translational leader in Indigenous nature finance and biotechnology, founder of Kinray Hub. Intersecting an MBA, PhD research, and constitutional traditions, we are architects of Indigenous biocomplexity systems, data sovereignty, and rights-based environmental markets. Our post-growth journey began through transboundary outsider-within work, researching ‘data deeds and titles’ to reclaim control over digital sequence information.
